# Sort events by start date, with more recent events lower in the file
# $FreeBSD$
year = 2008

[[events]]
id = "linuxexpofr-2008"
name = "Solutions Linux 2008"
url = "http://www.solutionslinux.fr/"
startDate = "2008-01-29"
endDate = "2008-01-31"
countryCode = "FR"
country = "France"
city = "Paris"
site = "CNIT"
address = "La Defense"
description = "A 3 day event to promote GNU/Linux and Open Source software. <a href=\"http://www.FreeBSD-fr.ORG\">French FreeBSD User Group</a> will be present in the Association Village to promote FreeBSD of course !"

[[events]]
id = "scale-2008"
name = "SCALE: Southern California Linux Expo 2008"
url = "http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/"
startDate = "2008-02-09"
endDate = "2008-02-10"
countryCode = "US"
country = "USA"
city = "Los Angeles"
site = "The Westin Los Angeles Airport"
state = "California"
description = "There will be a FreeBSD presence at the sixth Southern California Linux Expo in February. Matt Olander will be representing the project."

[[events]]
id = "fosdem-2008"
name = "FOSDEM 2008"
url = "http://www.fosdem.org/2008/"
startDate = "2008-02-23"
endDate = "2008-02-24"
countryCode = "BE"
country = "Belgium"
city = "Brussels"
site = "Universite Libre de Bruxelles"
description = "A 2-day event to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. There will be a joined BSD and PostgreSQL developer room. Several FreeBSD developers will be present with Core Team member Robert Watson giving the opening talk on one of the conference days."

[[events]]
id = "linuxtage-chemnitz-2008"
name = "Linuxtage Chemnitz 2008"
url = "http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2008/info/"
startDate = "2008-03-01"
endDate = "2008-03-02"
countryCode = "DE"
country = "Germany"
city = "Chemnitz"
site = "Technical University Chemnitz"
description = "Linuxtage Chemnitz is a two day event on Linux and Free Software in general. There will be workshops, talks and room for various projects to present themselves. FreeBSD will be present with a booth as well as several talks."

[[events]]
id = "unigroup-freebsd7-nyc-2008"
name = "Unigroup FreeBSD7 Launch Meeting"
url = "http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html"
startDate = "2008-03-13"
endDate = "2008-03-13"
countryCode = "US"
country = "USA"
city = "New York"
site = "Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility"
description = "UNIGROUP of New York presents FreeBSD 7, the latest release of the FreeBSD Operating System. George Neville-Neil, a member of the FreeBSD Project will give a presentation of the main features and significant improvements in the latest release as well as talk about the FreeBSD project and how the operating system is developed. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer period."

[[events]]
id = "asiabsdcon-2008"
name = "AsiaBSDCon 2008"
url = "http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/"
startDate = "2008-03-27"
endDate = "2008-03-30"
countryCode = "JP"
country = "Japan"
city = "Tokyo"
site = "Tokyo University of Science"
description = "AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our open source community are shared with the widest possible audience."

[[events]]
id = "LIT-2008"
name = "Linux-Infotag 2008"
url = "http://www.luga.de/Aktionen/LIT-2008/"
startDate = "2008-03-29"
endDate = "2008-03-29"
countryCode = "DE"
country = "Germany"
city = "Augsburg"
site = "FH Augsburg"
description = "The Augsburger Linux-Infotag offers two parallel tracks of talks to show the capabilities of free and open source software. There will be several talks about FreeBSD as well as a FreeBSD booth."

[[events]]
id = "osdc-tw-2008"
name = "OSDC.tw 2008 - Open Source Developers' Conference in Taiwan"
url = "http://osdc.tw/"
startDate = "2008-04-12"
endDate = "2008-04-13"
countryCode = "TW"
country = "Taiwan (ROC)"
city = "Taipei"
site = "School Of Continuing Education Chinese Culture University"
description = "OSDC.tw is a major conference for open source developers and contributions. The subject of OSDC.tw 2008 is the \"Innovation and Implementation\". Several FreeBSD developers and contributions will be presenting on FreeBSD topics."

[[events]]
id = "bsdcon-barcelona-2008"
name = "BSDCon Barcelona 2008"
url = "http://bcn.bsdcon.net/"
startDate = "2008-04-19"
endDate = "2008-04-20"
countryCode = "ES"
country = "Spain"
city = "Barcelona"
site = "Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya"
description = "BSDCon Barcelona is a conference on all BSD-based operating systems. Submissions can be on any topic, as long as they are somehow connected to BSD. There is room for all kinds of topics ranging from documentation to kernel-programming and using systems for various tasks."

[[events]]
id = "bsdcan-2008"
name = "BSDCan 2008"
url = "http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/"
startDate = "2008-05-16"
endDate = "2008-05-17"
countryCode = "CA"
country = "Canada"
city = "Ottawa"
site = "University of Ottawa"
description = "BSDCan is a developers conference with a strong focus on emerging technologies, research projects, and works in progress. It also features Userland infrastructure projects and invites contributions from both free software developers and those from commercial vendors."

[[events]]
id = "linuxtag-2008"
name = "LinuxTag 2008"
url = "http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/"
startDate = "2008-05-28"
endDate = "2008-05-31"
countryCode = "DE"
country = "Germany"
city = "Berlin"
site = "Messe Berlin"
description = "LinuxTag is Europe's largest event about Free Software, Linux and Open Source. This year there will be the traditional FreeBSD booth and several BSD talks. It will also be possible to take the BSDA certification exam there on Friday May 30."

[[events]]
id = "lsm-2008"
name = "9th Libre Software Meeting"
url = "http://2008.rmll.info/?lang=en"
startDate = "2008-07-01"
endDate = "2008-07-05"
countryCode = "FR"
country = "France"
city = "Mont-de-Marsan"
site = "Multiple Locations"
description = "The Libre Software Meeting has occurred each year since July 2000. This year there will again be a FreeBSD boot camp to introduce new users to the Operating System."

[[events]]
id = "oscon-2008"
name = "O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2008"
url = "http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/content/home"
startDate = "2008-07-21"
endDate = "2008-07-25"
countryCode = "US"
country = "USA"
city = "Portland, Oregon"
site = "Oregon Convention Center"
description = "The annual O'Reilly Open Source Conference will again have a FreeBSD booth this year. Matt Olander, Dru Lavigne, and others will help spread the word about FreeBSD."

[[events]]
id = "coscup-2008"
name = "COSCUP 2008 - Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters"
url = "http://coscup.org/2008/"
startDate = "2008-08-23"
endDate = "2008-08-24"
countryCode = "TW"
country = "Taiwan (ROC)"
city = "Taipei"
site = "International Conference Hall, Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University"
description = "COSCUP 2008 is the 3rd incarnation of the series, and becomes the biggest annual open source community party in Taiwan. Several FreeBSD contributions will be presenting on FreeBSD topics."

[[events]]
id = "froscon-2008"
name = "FrOSCon 2008"
url = "http://www.froscon.org/"
startDate = "2008-08-23"
endDate = "2008-08-24"
countryCode = "DE"
country = "Germany"
city = "Sankt Augustin"
site = "Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg"
address = "Grantham-Allee 20"
description = "FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place in Sankt Augustin near the cities of Bonn and Cologne. The conference revolves around a rich schedule of talks, highlighting current topics in Free Software and Open Source."

[[events]]
id = "openexpo-2008"
name = "OpenExpo 2008"
url = "http://www.openexpo.ch/"
startDate = "2008-09-24"
endDate = "2008-09-25"
countryCode = "CH"
country = "Switzerland"
city = "Zurich"
description = "The goal of OpenExpo is the promotion of Open Source software in the business environment. Among many others, there will be a FreeBSD booth."

[[events]]
id = "nycbsdcon-2008"
name = "NYCBSDCon 2008"
url = "http://www.nycbsdcon.org/"
startDate = "2008-10-11"
endDate = "2008-10-12"
countryCode = "US"
country = "USA"
city = "New York City"
site = "Columbia University"
description = "The New York City *BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) 2008 will be held at Columbia University in Manhattan. NYCBSDCon is the main technical conference on the East Coast for the BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge, to network with like-minded people, and to have fun. This event is organized by members of the New York City *BSD Users Group (NYC*BUG)."

[[events]]
id = "eurobsdcon-2008"
name = "EuroBSDCon 2008"
url = "http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/"
startDate = "2008-10-18"
endDate = "2008-10-19"
countryCode = "FR"
country = "France"
city = "Strasbourg"
site = "University of Strasbourg"
description = "The seventh annual European BSD Conference. It is oriented to developers and users of all BSD flavors, including FreeBSD of course. A variety of full and half-day tutorials will precede the conference."

[[events]]
id = "ticino-2008"
name = "Ticino Informatica 2008"
startDate = "2008-10-22"
endDate = "2008-10-25"
countryCode = "CH"
country = "Switzerland"
city = "Lugano"
site = "Palazzo dei Congressi"
description = "FreeBSD and The FreeBSD Foundation Stand A13 Presented by OEMS Sagl"

[[events]]
id = "meetbsd-2008"
name = "MeetBSD California 2008"
url = "http://meetbsd.com/"
startDate = "2008-11-15"
endDate = "2008-11-16"
countryCode = "US"
country = "USA"
city = "Mountain View"
site = "Googleplex"
state = "California"
description = "meetBSD was started in Krakow, Poland in 2004 and strong turnout and highly regarded technical presentations have allowed it to continue each year since then. meetBSD is a conference devoted to the BSD operating systems with a strong emphasis towards FreeBSD. meetBSD 2007 was held in Warsaw, Poland and will continue this year in Mountain View, California. This year marks the first meetBSD held in California, so join us to celebrate FreeBSD's 15th Anniversary!"

[[events]]
id = "nllgg-2008"
name = "NLLGG-bijeenkomst december 2008"
url = "http://www.nllgg.nl/bijeenkomst_20081213"
startDate = "2008-12-13"
endDate = "2008-12-13"
countryCode = "NL"
country = "the Netherlands"
city = "Utrecht"
site = "Liefland college"
state = "Utrecht"
description = "The \"Nederlandse Linux Gebruikers Groep\" (NLLGG) organisation is arranging a national community day in Utrecht focussing on BSD. Robert Watson, Hans vd Looy, Marten Vijn, Wim Vandeputte and Remko Lodder will do presentations for the Linux community."

